Book Announcement by Shlomit Yadlin-Gadot (Israel) and Uri Hadar (Israel)
In Lacanian Psychoanalysis: A Contemporary Introduction, Shlomit Yadlin-Gadot and Uri Hadar provide an original approach to the elaborate and complex world of Jacques Lacan, one of psychoanalysis’s most innovative thinkers.
This succinct introductory volume offers a fresh exposition of Lacanian thought, marking the philosophic influences and sensibilities that shaped it and presenting its ideas and concepts in a simple language. Illustrations that range from the clinical and cultural to daily contemporary experience enliven the theory and make it easily accessible. The Lacanian psyche is thoroughly explained and described, unfolding as a drama of desire and jouissance, of hopes and disillusions. Its elusive subject is predicated upon otherness and decentered by its various forms: language and culture, meaningful people and the body. From this perspective, the authors illustrate how Lacan showed that love, sex, politics and therapy always involve the desire to be with the other but, at the same time, to be free of her.
Part of Routledge’s Introductions to Contemporary Psychoanalysis series, this book will be of interest to psychoanalysts, students and scholars familiar with Lacan’s ideas, as well as those approaching his theories for the first time. Lacan’s unique and revolutionary understanding of human experience will benefit any scholar of human subjectivity, including art critics, cultural theorists, political commentators and academics in the humanities and social sciences.
Shlomit Yadlin-Gadot, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist, psychoanalyst, and teacher in the Tel Aviv Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis (TAICP). She is chair of the Psychotherapy Program, School of Medicine, and teaches in the Multidisciplinary track of the Humanities Faculty, Tel-Aviv University. She is an IARPP Board Member and Co-Chair of its international Colloquium Committer. Her book Truth Matters: Theory and Practice in Psychoanalysis was published by Brill (2016).
Uri Hadar, Ph.D., is professor of psychology in Tel Aviv University and the Rupin Academic Center. His fields of research include psychoanalysis, nonverbal communication, and the cerebral representation of natural language. His three books discuss psychoanalytic psychotherapy from the vantage point of integrating Lacanian and Relational approaches. He believes that psychoanalysis may offer a valid perspective for understanding social issues that may lay the basis for political involvement
Shlomit Yadlin-Gadot, Ph.D.
Ramat Hasharon, Israel
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Uri Hadar, Ph.D.
Ramat Hasharon, Israel
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